at the birth of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's political and economic climate allowed inventive minds to blossom. The growth of industry and factory towns in Britain. videoThe growth of ...

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial ...

Find out how the Industrial Revolution impacted Belfast and changed it forever. Belfast and shipbuilding Find out how Belfast became on of the most important shipbuilding cities in the world - and ...